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road, before approaching the " Kidgeway," passes through a 

 fine avenue of oak and elm trees ; at Almondsbury, a few 

 minutes' halt gave an opportunity of enjoying, from the 

 quarry's edge, the extensive and well-known view across the 

 richly wooded alluvial plains which bound the golden Severn. 

 The long street which constitutes the ancient market town of 

 Thornbury was more than usually animated this morning, 

 and justified the accounts of its historical antiquity, as it was 

 then holding its annual " Mop " fair — a piece of benighted 

 barbarism which it was hoped the enlightenment of the 

 nineteenth century had generally dispelled. After threading 

 their way through "cheap Jacks," country girls in many- 

 coloured attire, and an improved and somewhat recent 

 addition of a " Merry-go-round," the Members found them- 

 selves in the quiet precincts of the lofty and weU-restored 

 perpendicular church, under the guidance of the vicar. The 

 late Norman doorway to the south porch, the square-headed 

 font of the same period, the Decorated sedilia with three 

 seats of the same level, and piscina in the south wall of the 

 chancel (brought to light during the late restorations), and a 

 fine brass representing a female figure of the sixteenth 

 century, probably the wife of " Thomas Tyndall, who dyed 

 xxviii. April, 1571," memorialised in brass with some verses 

 below, were among the chief architectural features worthy of 

 record. It must not, however, be omitted to state that an 

 animated discussion was carried on in the vestry, where the 

 vicar had laid out for inspection some old registers of the 

 parish. The opinion of one of the Members — to whom the 

 sight of an old faded parchment is even more refreshing than 

 that of tawny port wine which has lost its colour through 

 age — was that the document was a copy of the old parish 

 register, A.D. 1540, made by a painstaking vicar, who aflBxed 

 his " Mem. John Jarsen minister, 1598, " for the purpose of 

 transmission to the then authorities in London. A tablet 



